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Notification from Ancestry when DNA attached trees have changed

Notification from Ancestry when DNA attached trees have changed

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 6:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Mar 2015 6:45PM GMT
Is there any way to find out if Ancestry Autosomal DNA matches have made changes to their trees, such as adding more people, changing a tree from private to public or adding a tree when they did not have one? It would be helpful if Ancestry could alert us when a tree in our DNA match haschanged.

Re: Notification from Ancestry when DNA attached trees have changed

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 11:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Mar 2015 11:08PM GMT
No, in general, there is not. If you are an invitee to the tree, you get notices of additions to the tree.

Re: Notification from Ancestry when DNA attached trees have changed

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 9:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sounds good in theory but if you have 160 pages of matches like me that would come to 3000 people. I would hate to get a notification every time one of those 3000 people decided to make a change to their tree! I have a tough enough time keeping up with everything on the Recent Member Connect Activity Screen

Seriously, though, it might be good to have a notification system if you could set parameters as to what sort of activities would generate a notification, and you would receive only notifications of those particular activities and how often you would receive them, etc. Whether a notification system would be practical considering the large numbers of Ancestry members who have been tested is probably the real issue.

Re: Notification from Ancestry when DNA attached trees have changed

Posted: 23 Apr 2015 5:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes, I see what you are saying. But , as you suggest, filters might work, for example, notifying within your "extremely high" matches or within a particular surname.
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